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367: Radical product thinking for product managers – with Radhika Dutt

Product Innovation Educators

My path to product leadership has been through entrepreneurship and product diseases. Your title is irrelevant—if you’re building products and thinking about how to engineer change, you’re applying product thinking. [9:05] If you’re a startup, survival depends on revenue and funding. 22:13] Prioritization.

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How to build a billion dollar sales team like Stripe

Intercom, Inc.

The fastest growing software companies in recent years all have something in common – they started with little to no sales team. They relied on a great product, with a passionate userbase that helped kickstart an organic growth engine which sold the product for them. Yes, Dropbox started off with no traditional sales team.

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Intercom on Product: Accelerating your strategy after COVID-19

Intercom, Inc.

” And in Intercom and elsewhere, we’ve been thinking about what that actually means for startups, for seed-stage companies, all the way through to mid and late-stage companies. Let’s just take, as a target case, a PM or a manager of PMs in a startup who’s being told, “Hey, let’s go and accelerate.”

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How to build, manage and scale a sales team – 12 strategies from the experts

Intercom, Inc.

If you want to build a revenue engine that will fuel long-term growth, you need to build and scale your sales org with intention. question becomes even more pressing given the trend toward “bottom-up” product adoption – i.e., offering a given product for free or without a formal top-down sales motion, as is common with SaaS.

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Pragmatic Live Transcripts (Prioritizing Your Product Launch)

Pragmatic Marketing

So I moved into that in Google when this startup had acquired and then four years ago, I joined HubSpot, to really, really focus on that. I've seen some startups and some companies do a launch every week, for instance. Usually, especially the sales engineering teams. And you've kind of cried wolf too many times.

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Pragmatic Live Transcripts (Prioritizing Your Product Launch)

Pragmatic Marketing

So I moved into that in Google when this startup had acquired and then four years ago, I joined HubSpot, to really, really focus on that. I've seen some startups and some companies do a launch every week, for instance. Usually, especially the sales engineering teams. And you've kind of cried wolf too many times.

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The Great Silence

The Product Coalition

One particular example, UpBank, I’d argue one of the most underrated and successful software companies in Australia, only has Product Designers with one single product leadership role. This internal focus problem doesn’t just impact product, design and engineering functions but every department you have in the company.